Author · updated 2026
Val McDermid Books in Order
Every Val McDermid book in publication order — 53 in total, spanning 1987–2020.
Publication Order of Austen Project Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northanger Abbey | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Inspector Karen Pirie Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Distant Echo | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | A Darker Domain | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Skeleton Road | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Out of Bounds | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Broken Ground | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Still Life | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Kate Brannigan Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead Beat | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Kick Back | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Crack Down | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Clean Break | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Blue Genes | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Star Struck | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Lindsay Gordon Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Report For Murder | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Common Murder | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Final Edition / Open and Shut / Deadline for Murder | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Union Jack / Conferences Are Murder | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Booked For Murder | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Hostage To Murder | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Tony Hill/Carol Jordan Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mermaids Singing | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Wire In The Blood | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Last Temptation | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Torment of Others | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Beneath the Bleeding | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Fever of the Bone | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Retribution | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Cross and Burn | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Splinter the Silence | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Insidious Intent | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Footloose | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | How the Dead Speak | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Place of Execution | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Killing The Shadows | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Grave Tattoo | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Trick of the Dark | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Vanishing Point | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleanskin | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Life's Too Short | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Granny Is a Pirate | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Suitable Job for a Woman | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Forensics | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | My Scotland | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Writing on the Wall and Other Stories | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Stranded | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Christmas is Murder | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Murderous Christmas Stories Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Murder on Christmas Eve | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 53, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Report For Murder | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Common Murder | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Final Edition / Open and Shut / Deadline for Murder | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Dead Beat | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Kick Back | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Union Jack / Conferences Are Murder | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Crack Down | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | A Suitable Job for a Woman | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Clean Break | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Mermaids Singing | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Blue Genes | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Booked For Murder | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Wire In The Blood | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Writing on the Wall and Other Stories | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Star Struck | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | A Place of Execution | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Killing The Shadows | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The Last Temptation | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The Distant Echo | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Hostage To Murder | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | The Torment of Others | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Stranded | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | The Grave Tattoo | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | Cleanskin | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | Beneath the Bleeding | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | A Darker Domain | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Fever of the Bone | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Trick of the Dark | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Life's Too Short | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | The Retribution | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | The Vanishing Point | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | My Granny Is a Pirate | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Cross and Burn | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Northanger Abbey | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | The Skeleton Road | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Forensics | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | Splinter the Silence | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Out of Bounds | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | Insidious Intent | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Murder on Christmas Eve | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | Broken Ground | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Footloose | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | How the Dead Speak | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | My Scotland | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Still Life | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | Christmas is Murder | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
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